Leon Panetta Quotes

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

Leon Panetta

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• We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Guilt

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Wife
  • Body
  • Complain

• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Strong

• I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Star
  • Fan

• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Children
  • Teach
  • Teachers

• It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Mind
  • Impossible
  • Rejection

• As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Truth Is

• In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Different
  • Remember
  • History

• Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Future
  • Success
  • Relationship

• There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Society
  • Moving

• We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

  

  Van Jones
  • Society
  • Understanding
  • Present

• A soul without reflection, like a pileWithout inhabitant, to ruin runs.

  

  Edward Young
  • Soul
  • Reflection

• In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mind
  • She
  • Strong

• I have a good time doing 'Give Me Back My Man.' Keith Strickland can really fly on the guitar.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Fly
  • Guitar
  • Good Time

• I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Common
  • Produce
  • Muddy

• More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Men
  • Purpose

• I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Sex
  • Scene
  • Discourse

• You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

  

  Leon Panetta